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long pole used to keep Ulysses’s ship off the shore

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long pole used to keep Ulysses’s ship off the shore
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Ulysses uses a long pole to keep the ship off shore while ordering his men to row for their lives.

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“I snatched up a long pole and kept the ship off, making signs to my men by nodding my head, that they must row for their lives”

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“I snatched up a long pole and kept the ship off”

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Book 9 · Passage 36

‘He got more and more furious as he heard me, so he tore the top from off a high mountain, and flung it just in front of my ship so that it was within a little of hitting the end of the rudder. {81} The sea quaked as the rock fell into it, and the wash of the wave it raised carried us back towards the mainland, and forced us towards the shore. But I snatched up a long pole and kept the ship off, making signs to my men by nodding my head, that they must row for their lives, whereon they laid out with a will. When we had got twice as far as we were before, I was for jeering at the Cyclops again, but the men begged and prayed of me to hold my tongue.